FLY FISHING – A casual and instructional evening to acquaint women interested in fly fishing is set for 6 p.m.-8:30 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 26, at Silver Bow Fly Shop, 13210 E. Indiana Ave. in Spokane Valley. Organized by Spokane Women on the Fly, the...
WILDLIFE – Flagged electric fencing was re-installed last weekend along six miles of Interstate 90 near Vantage to deter elk from getting into traffic. Mule Deer Foundation volunteers and staff from the state Fish and Wildlife and Transportation departments did the work. About 80 wintering...
WINTERSPORTS -- Four U.S. skiers including one from Spokane were rescued from an avalanche that occurred Thursday while skiing with a guided snowcat operation near Rossland, British Columbia. Paula Gaul, co-owner of Big Red Cats based in Rossland said that after a difficult rescue in...
PUBLIC LANDS -- Some positive news from Cheyenne, Wyoming, regarding the movement in some states to seize federal public land. Wyoming Senate President Eli Bebout said Friday that he is killing a public lands transfer constitutional amendment bill that rattled sportsmen who warned the resolution…
WINTER -- I don't plan to continue on the winter survival horse beat, but following yesterday's popular story about the Wyoming pack horse being rescued after six weeks in the wintry forest, two Idaho horses are reported stranded by snow drifts at elevation 8,000 feet...
HIKING -- The region has been dealt prime conditions for use of traction devices on our footwear. Take a tip from ice fishermen and get some. They have saved my butt this week.
HUNTING -- If you think you've had a tough winter, consider the plight of a Wyoming pack horse that was left for dead and survived on its own in the wolf-infested national forest for six weeks. The Jackson Hole News & Guide this week is...
WILDERNESS -- A federal judge has ruled that helicopter landings in Idaho wilderness to capture and collar wolves were illegal and that research data acquired from effort must be destroyed. According to a media release by Earthjustice, U.S. District Court Judge B. Lynn Winmill today...
BEACHES -- Ocean surf whipped to a froth by winter storms on the coasts of Washington and Oregon are awe-inspiring sights that attract tourists to the beaches. But the sights can turn deadly. The deaths of a man and boy last weekend on the Oregon...
WINTERSPORTS -- In this short, sharp video, Benjamin Read chronicles the rewards of an early start and muscle-powering up through frigid temps and clear skies to revel in the remote unblemished slopes of the North Idaho's Selkirk Mountains. "Good times earning turns with Kris Scott...
PUBLIC LANDS -- The St. Joe Ranger District is accepting applications for the lottery to select reservation rental dates for the popular Red Ives Cabin. Red Ives, which is just off the St. Joe River and its world-class cutthroat trout fishing, is among the small...
WILDLIFE -- Twenty of about three dozen pronghorns antelope injured while trying to cross the frozen Snake River had to be euthanized on Monday. The Idaho Fish and Game Department reports that the antelope were injured and stranded on the ice while attempting to cross…
ENVIRONMENT -- Give Interior nominee Rep. Ryan Zinke credit for having the guts to say climate change is not a hoax. The Associated Press reported the following from the Interior nominee's confirmation hearing: WASHINGTON – Donald Trump’s choice to head the Interior Department on Tuesday...
PREDATORS -- Montana wildlife officials killed a female mountain lion and three kittens after they killed two dogs on the northwestern edge of Missoula, near a school bus stop in the Grant Creek area. Fish, Wildlife and Parks wildlife management specialist Jaime Jonkel tells the…
MUSHING -- WINTERSPORTS -- It's the only Iditarod and Yukon Quest sled dog race qualifier in the lower 48 that takes place west of the Rocky Mountains -- and it's virtually in our backyard. The 13th annual running of the 200-mile Eagle Cap Extreme sled...
WATERSPORTS -- A free program to spike your adventure bucket list is scheduled tonight as veteran river rat and gifted photographer Pam Rogers presents a show on her 13-day raft trip on the very wild Tatshenshini-Alsek rivers. The program is sponsored by the Spokane Mountaineers...
PUBLIC LANDS -- Donald Trump's nominee for Interior secretary is laying out his ideas for future uses and potential abuses of federal public lands. Let's make sure that wildlife habitat, clean air and water and open space for public access remain high on the agenda....
WILDLIFE -- The Endangered Species Act is being targeted this week, more evidence that our nation is at a pivotal point in maintaining protections that conserve land, water and wildlife in the face of huge corporate pressure to develop our way out of existence. Republicans...
FISHING -- The next phase of the Washington's reform policy on Columbia River salmon management, including updates to provisions for fall chinook salmon, was approved by a 7-2 vote Saturday by the state Fish and Wildlife Commission during its meeting in Vancouver. Kim Thorburn, commissioner…
PUBLIC LANDS -- The Congressman who recently greased the skids for states to seize federal lands is probably a hero in his home anti-federal lands state of Utah, but his intentions get mixed reviews even among Republicans. Sportsmen are starting to call for their representatives...
PUBLIC LANDS -- The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation reiterated its "long-standing stance in adamantly opposing the sale or transfer of federal lands to states" this week. The statement was sent out as the battle for maintaining public access to federal public lands was in the...
WILDLIFE -- Gov. Jay Inslee has re-appointed Kim Thorburn of Spokane to the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission. Thorburn, a physician, active birder and former director of the Spokane Regional Health District, was featured in an S-R Outdoors profile recently. Inslee also brought the number...
WINTERSPORTS -- The frigid weather of the past week was easier to tolerate by heading high to bask in the warmth and sunshine. In case you haven't noticed, when the weather report advises of air stagnation and burning restrictions, there's probably an inversion. In...
PARKS -- Remember, personal belongings aren't safe in the cab of locked vehicles at Spokane City Parks and trailheads. A Facebook friend had a great day of cold, winter skiing on Rimrock Drive overlooking west Spokane Sunday only to return and find his pickup windows...
OUTDOOR PHOTOGRAPHY – A young fisherman silhouetted against a golden sun setting over the Pend Oreille River is the grand prize winner of the 2016 “Pretty in Pend Oreille” photo contest held by the Pend Oreille County Economic Development Council. The photo, titled "True Passion…
Rich Landers writes and photographs stories and columns for a wide range of outdoors coverage, including Outdoors feature sections on Sunday and Thursday.